scholasticize

To fit into the framework of scholasticism.

Attempting to force a theory of abstraction into Augustine's theory of knowledge, these interpreters tend to scholasticize Augustine at the expense of his Platonism.

The setting up of a canon of cure from authority, reason and sense was one of the devices by which Gentile hoped to scholasticize traditional practice.

To make excessively formal, rigid, or pedantic.

Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions.

In addition, lawyers scholasticize politics, and have contributed mightily to the de-democratization of American culture over the past four decades, by throwing all political and personal questions into the courts.

To study, describe, or codify as an academic discipline.

A man of adhesive intelligence and energy, at ease with strong words and bold actions, he did not merely scholasticize his ideas, he lived them.

Whether to any extent, and to what, the schoolmaster should scholasticize athletics, let us now consider.